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Nestle Discovers 'Breakthrough' Method To Cut Sugar In Chocolate By 40% Without Affecting Taste (theguardian.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the all-natural dept.

Nestle and its scientists have discovered how to "structure sugar differently" to reduce the amount of sugar in some of its products by 40%. What's more is that it can be done reportedly without compromising the taste. The Guardian reports: The new process is said to make sugar dissolve faster so that even when less is used, the tongue perceives an identical level of sweetness. It plans to patent the process, discovered by its scientists, which it says will enable it to significantly decrease the total sugar in its confectionery products. A four-finger milk chocolate Kit Kat currently contains 23.8g of sugar, a plain (milk chocolate) Yorkie contains 26.9g and a medium peppermint Aero has 24.9g of sugar. If the amount of sugar in each of these products was cut by 40% the new amounts would be 14.3g, 16.1g and 14.9g respectively.

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  1. Re:Thanks for doing the math by freeze128 · · Score: 5, Informative

    If the amount of sugar was *CUT* by 40%, slashdot readers would have to multiply by .6.

    See, math isn't always so simple, is it?

  2. Re:or how about less sugar anyways? by Anaerin · · Score: 4, Informative

    Indeed there is. The milk they use for Hershey chocolate is partially lipolyzed, producing butyric acid, which stabilizes the milk from further fermentation.

  3. Re:or how about less sugar anyways? by Namarrgon · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's also worth noting that butyric acid is the main source of the smell of human vomit.

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  4. Nestle didn't discover anything. by Khyber · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is something well-known to anyone with actual culinary experience. See sea salt vs table salt. Same principle applies to sugar - make if finer, you find that you actually end up using LESS because of more even distribution for same effect.

    Nestle is literally trying to patent that which has been known for fucking centuries by any generally-knowledgeable housewife or cook or chef.

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  5. Nope. by serviscope_minor · · Score: 5, Informative

    Parent post is inaccurate and shouldn't be modded informative.

    Dark chocolate still has sugar in. It doesn't have milk in like milk chocolate.

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